Hi, On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Monday 12 September 2005 19:42, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
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I will surely not get a new server this year like I think I need (quad Opteron with 32 GB RAM, 15 TEuro money at least), so we have to care that the current server(s) will stay able to fulfill their tasks within time.
ftp.gwdg.de alone already lacks this requirement these days, so I have delegated the every-4-hours-APT-refresh to a second server. I really can't extend this service further, and in fact it is already too much hassle under professional aspects.
Cheers -e
It's probably none of my business, and you can tell me that without offending me, but how in the world does this amount of infrastructure get /paid/ for in the first place? All the bandwidth? The hardware? Eberhard's Rolls Royce? :-) I've never had even a glimpse of what the various funding mechanism(s) are.
ftp.gwdg.de has as a primary role: serving the gwdg.de net (University
of Goettingen plus the local Max-Planck-Institutes plus - more and more
the last time - all other Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany).
The secondary role is to serve for the DFN network (www.dfn.de) as a
server for SUSE-Linux. We were free to decide this "inside GWDG", because
the payment policy of the DFN (our provider, the german scientific
network) is VERY VERY fair (one of my former chiefs had influenced it
this way): we are paying for INCOMING traffic, but all OUTGOING traffic
is considered a "service to the DFN community" and by this free of cost.
What if we had a "New server gwdg.de for Eberhard" fund-raiser? Tacky?
Against the rules? Against the law? Ever tried? SUSE/Novell is currently investigating, but you may be right that we will
never achieve it.
First hurdles are at novell.com (U.S. laws,).
Second hurdles at gwdg.de (local german laws). I'd really appreciate having this gap in my understanding filled in... "Man" is the glue (me, I guess). I like to assure that we in practice
have no real gap.
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)